"Roy Hann" <specially_at_processed.almost.meat> writes:
> If that is so then it is puzzling. Why would anyone think of describing
> something N-dimensional as being "flat"?
it would make some sense if it was used to refer to single table that
only had a primary index. ... it that case, primary index look up
would be very similar operation to a query that did a binary search on
a sorted (flat) file (and non-indexed searches of a single table would
also be similar to operations performed on records of a flat file).
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Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/
Received on Sun Oct 16 2005 - 11:12:13 CDT
